can we limit replies and discussion to actual news like this? Please don’t turn this into another general conversation that will have 100 posts of general opinion for every 1 post of actual info.
ISU Athletics Staff Member Tests Positive
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can we limit replies and discussion to actual news like this? Please don’t turn this into another general conversation that will have 100 posts of general opinion for every 1 post of actual info.
Yeah, I think we're a long ways from playing games. But I still think players should have access to workout.
It will be interesting to see what happens over the summer, the premier league in England did have some initial positive tests but it's been steadily going down and the last round had zero positives.
There’s an area between death and full recovery. Lung damage, immune system damage, respiratory distress that may never go away. You talk like COVID is either you die or you’re fine. That’s false.
Lots of student athletes are still currently living in Ames. Just because their respective teams aren't working out they are still in town.
I know. I was replying to the poster that said it must be football players. Fact is many different sports athletes are living in Ames right now and as the press release said it came from contact with a non Athletic Department employee.
@Gunnerclone, I get your point, this thing is dangerous. I live with an ER doctor who is exposed to this stuff daily (even if layered in PPE while doing it). I have heard first-hand stories of patients dying with it, including a few much younger than 40.
But we cannot lock ourselves away for two years to be 100% sure this thing is dead and gone. This isn't about, "Waaaaahhhhh I'm bored and wanna football." Literally every institution in our society -- for-profit proprietors, partnerships, and corporations, non-profit institutions such as universities and hospitals, charities, organizations of faith, states and localities, and maybe even the federal government -- would be broke.
I am not even bringing up individuals and households in the same boat.
The risk management proposition here is hellish. Iowa State and college athletics needs football revenues this fall, or everybody who works there is going to be fired. I do not know if trying to play football this fall is the right decision or not, but the decision not to is basically one of quiet extinction. I have said this to you before, but when that is your other option, the human thing to do is go down swinging and fighting.
Life is not without risks and not infinitely valuable. Getting in a car is an dangerous thing that we all do on a daily basis -- but we tolerate it because being in a car is generally pretty useful. The same applies here. We cannot hide forever, and I think people are "voting with their feet" right now that they are not going to hide much longer.
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Better go smoke a bowl this morning. That will help calm yourself down.
It's totally possible that the athletes got it from somewhere other than the employee that tested positive but I wouldn't say that makes it worse or better of a situation, if an outbreak is coming from community spread with multiple athletes bringing it in from different sources that's not the same situation as an employee having it and spreading it to athletes but either way you have it in the facilities and this becomes a test case for how well it can be contained in that enviroment.
Not playing college football so our bright young people don’t die isn’t “staying locked inside for two years”. 100 years ago kids this age were living in trenches getting gassed, bombed, machine gunned, with a deadly pandemic that they didn’t even know about. I think we can make it without a football game because ENTERTAIN ME!
It says right in the press release the athletes were exposed from a NON AD employee.
I never said that. Of course there are other unfortunate outcomes. There is definitely some risk. There is risk in most things we do. There is risk in doing nothing.
I do not have any evidence for this, but I am 99.99% sure at least a few (if not a significant amount) of college students die driving to/from campus each fall, even if they only do it once. It is much worse for commuters (like I was). Back-and-forth between Boone and Ames in my mid-90s Ford Escort on Highway 30 every day, especially in some ****** conditions into the teeth of the Iowa winter, was far from perfectly safe every time I did it.
If we cancel college, then we save a few lives.
Why don't we just cancel it wholesale, Gunner? Why do you want people to die?
I think college sports are going to be the most difficult to bring back. Pro athletes can limit their interactions with people outside the of the games and practices. College kids are in an environment that is perfect for spreading a virus. They have to be with all the other students in classes and in dorms. They will be hanging out, going out on weekends etc.
The mental health deterioration, suicides, and other unintended consequences needs to also be considered. We flattened the curve, now its time to go about things smart. To me, I believe Jamie Pollard is going about things as careful as he can. He flat out said there is risk but here is the plan to minimize it.
what do we do when we do risky things? What do you have in your car that you should wear whenever you get in? What is the point of that device?
